Ashton Lacey Consulting

08/10/2026

Why Work With ALC?

When you hire Ashton Lacey Consulting, you are not simply hiring a consultant to produce a report, policy, or strategic plan. You are bringing in a partner who understands the complexity of Indigenous organizations and the importance of creating solutions that work in the real world.

ALC brings together Indigenous knowledge, executive leadership experience, formal education, and practical organizational experience to help organizations move from ideas to meaningful action.

Ashton understands that every organization and community has its own history, relationships, strengths, challenges, and priorities. Her approach is therefore collaborative, practical, and relationship-based. She takes the time to understand the organization before recommending solutions and works alongside leadership, staff, and community to ensure the work reflects the people it is intended to serve.

Clients can expect ALC to bring:
▪️Indigenous and culturally grounded perspectives that recognize the importance of community, relationships, identity, and self-determination.

▪️Executive-level leadership experience and an understanding of the realities leaders face when making complex decisions.

▪️Practical solutions, rather than recommendations that look good on paper but are difficult to implement.

▪️Strong policy and governance knowledge, with an ability to translate legislation, funding requirements, organizational needs, and Indigenous values into workable systems.

▪️Strategic thinking and organizational insight, helping organizations understand not only what needs to change, but why.

▪️A change-management approach that recognizes that meaningful transformation requires people to be supported through the process.

▪️Clear, professional, and accessible communication, whether developing policies, facilitating planning sessions, preparing reports, or working directly with leadership and teams.

▪️A commitment to doing work with organizations, not simply for them, leaving clients with greater clarity, capacity, and tools they can continue using after the engagement ends.

🔆ALC’s goal is simple: to help Indigenous organizations strengthen their systems, leadership, and capacity while remaining grounded in who they are and the communities they serve.

06/28/2026

EXCITING NEWS!! I just became a published author! I wrote a chapter for my university. My piece is called Raven Rising: A Matriarch is Born. I have linked my website, you can find it under the media tab.

I contributed to a chapter in a larger body of work called "Transformative Organizational Leaders IN ACTION" Edited by Kathy Bishop.  

06/05/2026

Today I had the pleasure of engaging educators. I am creating a code of conduct for employees, and this organization graciously allowed me to practice REAL decolonized approaches to policy making. I talked about how decolonizing policies means engaging, listening, and implementing ideas from those impacted by these policies.

We played a little facilitation game I created called "Policy Speed Dating". We had a lot of fun and learned a lot about the values of the organization, how to implement those, how to create connection, and how to support one another.

At the end, the feedback I received was that people have never been apart of helping create policy before and they were happy to be included.

Now the work begins ❤️

05/24/2026

*NEW POST*

Policy development cannot truly be decolonized if policies are still being created for people instead of with them.

As my work continues to evolve, so does the way I approach policy development. I am intentionally shifting away from top-down models and moving toward practices that are collaborative, relational, and community-led. This means building policies alongside the people who are directly impacted by them, not after the fact, and not as a checkbox for consultation.

Real buy-in comes from the ground up. It comes from listening, involving, and honouring the lived experiences, voices, and wisdom of the people who will ultimately carry and live within these policies.

Decolonizing practice is not just language we use in meetings or strategic plans. It is something we must actively practice in the way we lead, engage, and make decisions. For me, this is what it means to walk the walk.

My business and my ethics are deeply aligned in this work. Indigenizing policy means creating processes rooted in relationship, accountability, reciprocity, and community voice, not simply adapting colonial systems with Indigenous wording attached to them.

There is still so much work to do, but I am committed to doing this work in a good way.

If you are looking for a new take on policy development rooted in culture, lets have a conversation.